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I’m not really understanding what the “life” part of this is.

• Buttons840 3y ago
  Indeed. If we described this as a "neat circular patterns simulator" would anything be lost? Is there reproduction? Is there evolution? Is there death? It appears not. Those are essential to life.
  • emmanueloga_ 3y ago
    I suspect it is called life because some of the observed patterns looks a lil bit like something you would see while peering at a petri dish on a microscope (if you squint? :-). Perhaps it is implied that with the right rules you would be able to generate "the real thing".
• elwell 3y ago
  It's an iteration on Conway's "Game of Life".